Overview

• On August 10, hundreds of Ger and Boyaner chassidim gathered at the gates of Military Prison 10 in Beit Lid to protest the IDF’s arrest of draft-eligible yeshiva students
• Members of the Peleg Yerushalmi Jerusalem Faction urged the crowd to storm the facility but were stopped by reinforced military security
• Boyaner avreichim from Beitar Illit joined under direct orders from their Rebbe, while Rabbi Yosef Binyomin Wosner of Shevet HaLevi led prayers and delivered words of encouragement on site
• Protesters chanted slogans in solidarity with the detained Yitzhakov brothers and vowed to expand a mass resistance movement against enforced conscription of Torah students
• The Eda Charedis has warned it will shut down Ben Gurion airport for 12 hours if the military continues to detain yeshiva students